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Originally Posted by chrisp9au
I would love for somebody to tell me whether I'm on the right track here?
1. Plugged my location into http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi (Pic 1)
2. From the generated ephemeris, selected the time period of closest approach (Pic 2)
3. Plotted the RA and DEC for times before dawn twilight (Pic 3)
So, on Saturday morning around 4:40am, I should be looking in the right direction? |
Chris, you don't really need data before about 2012-02-15 10:00 UTC. Up until then just about any planetarium program will get close. It will be in Octans.
I'd suggest you start earlier. If you go much later than 05:00 (18:00 UTC) you'll be competing with morning twilight.
You can set flags in the "Table Settings" to show constellation ids and not display values after sunrise.